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The Cubs have played 19,054 games since the start of the Modern Era in 1901. 1,831 of them have gone into extra innings, a little less than 10 percent. The Cubs tied 352 of those 1,831 games in...

Second of 2 posts .......... During the 122 regular seasons of the Modern Era, the Cubs employed a pinch runner 3,074 times. The first was Frank Chance, at Brooklyn, on June 6, 1902; the most...

Third and last in a series of posts .......... On Sept. 19, 1950, Frank Hiller of the Cubs became the 33rd pitcher to face the minimum of 27 batters in a 9-inning complete game without pitching a...

May 14 will be the 130th anniversary of a major event in the history of the Cubs: their first game at the West Side Grounds, which would be their home for nearly a quarter of a century. ... The...

A triple is by far the rarest hit in Major League Baseball. This season, according to data at baseball-reference.com, there have been 0.13 triples per team per game. For comparison, there have...

This afternoon, the Cubs will host the Giants for the first time this season. It was the same story a year ago, when the teams didn't meet at Wrigley Field until Sept. 10. More than a century...

After perusing my recent post about games that the Cubs won a strikeout/throwout doubleplay, constant reader Ernaga commented, in part, "how many Cubs losses have ended either by a pick-off at...

Last in a series of 4 posts .......... The Cubs haven't had much success in doubleheaders in recent seasons. From 2016-22, they are just 11-25 when playing twice in a day, including 1-7 this...

As you may have heard, the Cubs snapped a 10-game losing streak Friday by beating the Braves, 1-0. That streak was the Cubs' third of double digits in the last calendar year, something they never...

BC-BBO--This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead, May 27-June 2, Two Takes